Charity can spring
from decidedly uncharitable impulses. Hôtel-Dieu, a private charity
hospital in the French Burgundian city of Beaune, is intriguing in that
its founder's motives were less than selfless.

A new history text on American philanthropy not only incorporates
vital communities left out of earlier texts--including minorities, immigrants,
and women--but reveals how closely philanthropic behavior is tied to contemporary
assumptions and definitions.

Leaders across the vast nonprofit sector often find their greatest common
challenge in the day-to-day management of stakeholder groups. Many nonprofit
organizations are using scholarly research into management and structure
to guide them through reorganizations.

A network of nonprofit agencies underpins much of the U.S. human service
system through complex relationships with government, the private sector,
and each other. For the system to work, these agencies need leaders who
have a strong interest in building relationships with other organizations.